Excluding the weasels taken by Alcorn, more specimens of the remaining lot were caught in traps set in the burrows of pocket gophers than by all other means combined.
Since most of the raptorial predators that would prey on pocket gophers do not have a wide hunting territory, it is likely that the gophers were taken within a short distance of the cave.
Since that time several papers, some of them dealing mostly with habits of pocket gophers, have been published in which reference is made to Geomys in Kansas.
Therefore, in pocket gophers, grooving may be an adaptation for feeding on fibrous or woody material.
Two genera of pocket gophers should be congeneric.
Pocket gophers of this genus are medium-sized geomyids; none is so small as the average-sized Thomomys.
The postcranial skeleton of living genera of pocket gophers, as befits animals that spend most of their life within underground burrows, are highly specialized for a fossorial life.
Nevertheless, the area of occurrence of nesophilus is effectively isolated by the exposed, sandy lake bottom that is unsuited to occupancy by pocket gophers.
Map showing the distribution of species and subspecies of pocket gophersin Utah.
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